Keenan Cornelius awed the crowd at the recent Dallas Open with a sweep using the worm guard that ended in a beautiful armbar.

Watch the video above to see him doing it and then watch the one below to learn how he does it.

Keenan Cornelius has another weird guard technique to teach.

He calls it the Mantis guard and it involves making a grip on your own shin (or pants).

Watch the video and see if this works for you.

He teaches two ways of sweeping the opponent with variations for the waiter sweep and the x-guard.

And then the gates were open and we had the half-guard, De La Riva, Spider, Lasso, inverted DLR, etc and etc.

All of them were more or less accepted with various levels of controversy.

Three techniques generates the highest level of discussion recently.

The first one to hit the headlines was the much used, but also dreaded 50/50 guard.

Used to control the opponent, it was quickly considered a staller’s technique that wouldn’t allow the match to move forward.

As everything else in Jiu-Jitsu, the 50/50 can be used for good and also for bad.

JT Torres shows how to be effective using the technique.

After the 50/50, berimbolo became the talk of the town.

All of a sudden, passing guard was for suckers and the fastest way to victory was to roll your way to the opponent’s back.

The berimbolo is still very much a trend that creates a lot of controversy.

In this video, the Miyao Bros. teach various ways to attack using the bolo.

As if traditionalists were not ticked off enough, Keenan Cornelius decided to take things to a whole new level.

He came up with a variation of the lapel guard that wraps the opponent’s leg in his own lapel called the worm guard.

Some people loved it as an efficient way to control the opponent, specially heavier opponents, but some people wanted to beat Keenan up.

Again, as all things Jiu-Jitsu, the worm guard can be used for good or evil.

Keenan usually uses it to sweep tough opponents and to set up beautiful finishes too.

Here’s a BJJ Scout video explaining the basics of the worm guard.

Ok, these three techniques are not your thing.

Don’t hate them, go train and learn how to shut them down like Marcus Buchecha did here with Keenan’s worm guard.

https://youtu.be/vkbqrcVsqr8?t=11m4s

Rodolfo Vieira faces Marcus Buchecha in Abu Dhabi

Rodolfo Vieira is getting ready for the three most important tournaments in 2015. The 2011 black belt open class world champion will be present at the WPJJC, the World championship and the ADCC, as he told GRACIEMAG.

“The WPJJC, Worlds and ADCC are my main goals this year. I got the invitation to compete at the ADCC in August, but still haven’t made my mind. It’s something I really want to do and I hope can.”

The man with the most efficient top game in today’s competition circuit is healing from a lower back injury. “I had this back injury and hardly couldn’t move, but I’m better now and back to training hard to compete.”

Four times world champion in his weight division and an IBJJF hall of famer, Rodolfo admits he is already thinking of moving on to new challenges. That means going head on into an MMA career in 2016.

“I’ll make up my mind after this year’s World championship. I have other plans and also I want to heal the injuries I have been carrying for some time. I’m not sure I’ll be around to compete at the 2016 Worlds.”

Rodolfo Vieira, GFTeam black-belt. Photo: Ivan Trindade/GRACIEMAG

Rodolfo Vieira, 2011 black belt open class world champion champion, is widely regarded as one of the most powerful guard passers of all times.

Pure pressure, Rodolfo is also a very technical fighter with tons of solutions to overcome his opponent’s strategies to hold his advance.

Keenan Cornelius, in his own merit, is an expert in guard play and has come up with a kind of lapel guard as annoying as efficient.

The worm guard is the talk of the moment and Rodolfo has literaly weighed in the discussion to offer his antidote to the technique.

Take a look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6dUxlhbO_8

Many people have been playing around with the position but one brown belt under Rubens Cobrinha Charles has worked on a counter.

Here, Isaac Doederlein explains a way to not only combat the tie-up but he also shows how you can take the back from there. Check it out and let us know if this seems like something you would use: